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BOOKS

THE RED AND YELLOW NOTHING

POETRY

Jay Bernard

BFI Flare film fest programmer, poet, artist, DIVA columnist and all-round queer-about-town, Jay Bernard continually defies all expectations. Following her 2013 collection, English Breakfast, Jay turns her phenomenal intelligence and boundary-defying imagination to the tale of Sir Morien, son of Agloval, knight of the round table. Taking inspiration from a 1901 translation of a Middle Dutch poem, Bernard constructs a prequel to the story of Morien, a “Moor” come to Europe in search of his father. Taking an irreverent approach to issues of race, gender and literary history, Bernard turns the story of a little-known medieval knight into a fresh, witty and exciting quest for identity, in an imagined medieval world that is equal parts strange and familiar. The poem is interspersed with gorgeous, richly textured images.

About DIVA Magazine

Our bi-annual sex issue is sizzling hot with 40 pages of lesbian and bi hotness
Also in this issue
Lesbian sex: Expectation versus reality
Travelling solo, and safely, as a woman
Wonderful, not weird: Readers share their unusual fetishes
Sex in DIVA: Are we being censored?
Born this way: Intersex and proud
From the vaults: Hot 90s lesbian photography revisited
Sharon D Clarke
Kiran Gandhi
Anohni
Jack Monroe
Eleanor Margolyes binge watches the whole of The L Word
Plus all the very best in life, scene, books, film, music and TV.